AIDS, culture, and Africa / edited by Douglas A. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, Douglas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

Africa.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology.

Africa South of the Sahara.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.

Cultural Characteristics.

Risk Assessment.

Sexual Behavior--ethnology.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Medical Subjects:

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology.

Africa South of the Sahara.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.

Cultural Characteristics.

Risk Assessment.

Sexual Behavior--ethnology.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Physical Description:

xiv, 293 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]

Summary:

"AIDS, Culture, and Africa examines such key issues as HIV transmission, condom use, sexual patterns, male circumcision, political factors, gender, poverty, and behavioral change. It features the research of those working in different countries in Africa, with different communities within those countries, and with different age, class, religious, and ethnic groups within those communities." "These original, previously unpublished essays serve as a call to arms for anthropologists to enter into the war against AIDS in Africa and address the need for a greater anthropological perspective in the increasingly medicalized and politicized study of the disease. As a whole, they pave the way for a deeper cultural understanding necessary to effectively reverse the catastrophic growth of HIV/AIDS on the continent."--Jacket.

Contents:

AIDS, culture, and Africa : the anthropological perspective / Douglas A. Feldman

Confounding conventional wisdom : the Ju/'hoansi and HIV/AIDS / Richard B. Lee and Ida Susser

Gendered responses to living with AIDS : case studies in Rwanda / Ruth Kornfield and Stella Babalola

A theory of social proximity : accounting for societal-level behavior change / Kate MacIntyre and Carl Kendall

Male circumcision in the AIDS era : new relevance of an old topic / Judith E. Brown

Factors that influence Ivorian women's risk perception of STIs and HIV / Kim Longfield

Courage, conquest, and condoms : harmful ideologies of masculinity and sexual encounters in Zambia in the time of HIV/AIDS / Anthony Simpson

Attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among Zambian high school students / Douglas A. Feldman ... [et al.]

Myths of science, myths of sex : homophobia and HIV vulnerability in Namibia / Robert Lorway

HIV/AIDS prevention : strategies for improving prevention efforts in Africa / Elizabeth Onjoro Meassick

Tugende Uganda : issues in defining "sex" and "sexual partners" in Africa / Susan McCombie and Ariela Eshel

HIV/AIDS and the context of polygyny and other marital and sexual unions in Africa : implications for risk assessment and interventions / Teresa Swezey and Michele Teitlebaum

Gender, poverty, and AIDS risk : case studies from rural Uganda / Charles B. Rwabukwali

Culture in action : reactions to social responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa / Eleanor Preston-Whyte

Conclusion : it's not just about AIDS

the underlying agenda to control HIV in Africa / Douglas A. Feldman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813032535

0813032539

OCLC:

226356600